More sales to Europe including cities like Barcelona, Lisbon, Paris, and London on United and its Star Alliance partners on top of the sales to Dublin today. The fares are available for travel until Spring, 2015.

Here’s what we found –

Los Angeles [LAX] (LAX only to Madrid)

• Madrid [MAD]

Most cities pairs are available. Spain is available from every city. We found Paris just from Dallas. London, we found from Dallas and Philadelphia. Dallas has the best availability.

San Jose [SJC], Phoenix [PHX], Seattle [SEA], Portland [PDX], Santa Ana – Orange County [SNA], Miami [MIA], Baltimore [BWI], Philadelphia [PHL], Boston [BOS], Chicago [ORD], Dallas [DFW] to these destinations:

• Shannon [SNN]
• Barcelona [BCN]
• Oslo [OSL]
• Stockholm [ARN]
• Copenhagen [CPH]
• Madrid [MAD]
• Zurich [ZRH]
• Lisbon [LIS]
• Helsinki [HEL]
• Paris [CDG]
• Rome [FCO]
• Prague [PRG]
• Athens [ATH]
• London [LHR]

There could be more cities. However, we did not find any availability from New York or Newark. Also not available from San Francisco [SFO] or Washington D.C. [DCA/IAD]. However, for San Francisco and Washington, it is available from San Jose and Baltimore.

Also available from San Diego / Las Vegas / Denver / Kansas City / Charlotte / Orlando per Fare Deal Alert.

To maximize mileage earning, you want to have as many of your flights on United or Brussels as much as possible. Any flight on Lufthansa, Swiss and Austrian for example will earn zero percentage mileage. Air Canada will earn 25% for flights between the United States and Canada and 100% from Canada to Europe.

Update 8/29/2014 @ 2:20PM Eastern – fare gone

Sample Travel Date:

• Sample from Los Angeles to Madrid
• November 6th – 13th

Fare Availability:

• Valid for travel on the outbound from October 16th – December 14th or December 24th – May 6th, 2015. Must purchase at least 3 days in advance of departure

• Please note that while this fare is valid at time of posting, if this post is more than two days old, the fare is likely gone.

How to Search for Availability:

• Use ITA Software Matrix Airfare Search and use the following search criteria:
  • Departing from: LAX
  • Outbound Advanced Routing Code:
  • Destination: MAD
  • Return Advanced Routing Code: 
  • (Click on Advanced Routing Codes link to enable advanced routing code input)
  • (For other cities and destinations, replace LAX and MAD with the airport from above)
  • (Leave the routing code fields empty if you want to see availability for all)
  • Select “See calendar of lowest fares”
  • Length of stay “0-7” (This is just a sample, you can use any 7 day date range like 3-10, 7-14 etc)
  • You cannot buy tickets using ITA. To buy, follow our instructions below
• Beginner’s Guide on How to Use Matrix by ITA Software
• How to Read Airfare Rules and Use It to Your Advantage

Fare Class:

• K

Elite Qualifying Dollars:

• $546 [More for other cities]

Routing:

• LAX – EWR (Newark) – MAD (Madrid) – EWR – LAX. Certain segments might be operated by United partners like Air Canada, Lufthansa, Austrian, Swiss, or Brussels.

Stopover:

• Not permitted
• How to Take Advantage of a Stopover

Global Premier Upgrade Fare (for United 1K and GS members):

• W Class
• $1,202 [More for other cities]

Mileage:

United will be revenue based mileage earning starting March 1st, 2015. Miles will be earn base on elite qualifying dollars multiple by 5 as base level earning and up to 11 for 1K level members. We will be showing the 2015 base mileage earning for all United fares going forward to show how negative the changes are for a majority of United flyers.

• 2014: 12,098 miles or 5.5 cents per mile.
• March 1st, 2015:  2,730 miles or a difference of 9,368 miles.

How to Book:

• Support us by using our Orbitz link to book with dates found on ITA Software Matrix Airfare Search. Make sure you select “Additional Search Options” and then “Narrow the search to my preferred airlines” and select United

 

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Background Information:

• Visa Requirements: Not required. Other nationals, check the TIMATIC Visa Database.
• Currency: Euro (EUR). $1USD = 0.73 EUR

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• No Foreign Transaction Fee Credit Cards to save on international purchases
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